LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI ~

 

A

REDWOOD

FALLS

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

March 24, 1919 ~ February 22, 2021

I N T E R V I E W

ARTURO DI MODICA (One Great Story) ~

 

A R T U R O    D I    M O D I C A

POETS WHO SLEEP #39 ~

P O E T S     W H O     S L E E P

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                                           drawn & scribed by Bob Arnold

The complete series to date ~ please link here

DRUMMER MAN ~

 

M I L F O R D     G R A V E S

1941 ~ 2021 

REMEMBERING JAMES RIDGEWAY ~

 

JAMES RIDGEWAY

Many remember, as I do, reading James Ridgeway first in

I.F. Stone's terrific weekly journal, and later in the

Village Voice. I couldn't have lived and worked

any further from any city, but every week I had the

Village Voice and other important above ground

and underground publications delivered through

the US Mail (thank you) from our major

cities in America — Ramparts Magazine yet another,

Liberation, WIN, The Realist, Old Mole, Berkeley Barb,

the East Village Other, the list is mighty. I was a kid with

little money and these papers didn't cost all that much.

The day of the Democratic Convention in Chicago, 1968,

riots in the street, I kept current from small town America by walking

down my neighorhood street and into another street to the town

newstand and buying the New York Times (as I did each day).

All of 9 cents.

The other day, the New York Times told me

James Ridgeway had passed away.

Go look and find what treasury he left us.

[ BA ]

WAKING TO SNOW ~

 

Chickadees                                  

Intricate                                                          

needlepoint of

chickadees in the

high pines

I'll wear their song

all day

Dark Light

Trying to remember

the names of

things I love.

The Milky Way

too heavy

for the roof to hold.

John Martone ~ David Maria Turoldo

 

David Maria Turoldo

"O My Senses"

translated by John Martone

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2021

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signed by John Martone

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POETS WHO SLEEP #38 ~

P O E T S     W H O     S L E E P

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                                           drawn & scribed by Bob Arnold

The complete series to date ~ please link here

JEANNIE SEELY ~

 

to all sweethearts

SEE & HEAR ~

 

JOHN HAINES (1958-1960) ~

 

Two Poems After Li Po

I — Conversation

If you ask me why

I live here on

this lonely hillside

I will smile and say:

The autumn leaves

drift on the moving

water, and

the world of men

is far away.

II — Quiet Night

Moonlight spills

across the bed,

outside the frost

is deepening.

I lie awake and

watch the changing

shadows, thinking

of the lonely earth.

A Letter

                  after Li Chang-yin

I will not ask you

what we know too well,

the heart has

its own intelligence.

I lower the flame in the lamp

by the snowbound window

and let the moonlight in.

Two thousand miles away

you have said goodbye,

and there is no returning.

After Chu Yuan

With you

I will go down

to the river

and bathe in a quiet pool.

I will dry your hair

in the sun

singing a little,

facing the quiet wind.

With you

I will climb the slope

of evening,

warmed and content,

thinking of home.

________________

John Haines

Of Your Passage, O Summer

Limberlost Press, 2004

LIVINGSTON SUITE ~

 

from Livingston Suite

Maybe I'm wrong. After years of practice

I learned to see as a bird but I refuse

to do it now, not wanting to find the body.

I traveled east to our cabin in Michigan

where I learned that my Zen master, Kobun

Chino Sensei, drowned in a cold lake trying to save

his three-year-old daughter who also drowned.

I make nothing of this but my mind suddenly

rises far upward and I see Kobun in his black

robes struggling in the water and he becomes

a drowning raven who then frees himself for flight,

his daughter on the lake's bottom rising to join him.

What could the vision mean but a gift? I said

maybe I'm wrong. The Resurrection is fatally correct.

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Jim Harrison

Livingston Suite

Limberlost Press, 2005

RE-READING YAKIMA LEGENDS

 

AN INTERVIEW WITH BOB ARNOLD BY MUSIC ARTIST JOSHUA BURKETT

 

An interview with Bob Arnold

by music artist Joshua Burkett

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S. CLAY WILSON ~

 

S. Clay Wilson in 1967.

Tim Forcade

S. CLAY WILSON 

Riot In Cell Block Number Seven (1977)